It seems clear to me now that you've never had any close contact with the working poor. If you did, you would understand how their priorities are very different from the affluent.

Maybe they're not forcing the poor, but let's just say they're making the wrong path a nicely paved, straight and slightly downhill road. When you are in the situation of living paycheck to paycheck, need a reliable car to get to your 2 jobs, and someone offers you such a car for a monthly payment you can afford in…

I don't know of anything that's made it big, but during a browse on Monster awhile back, I saw quite a few job postings for amazon.com and some smaller software companies for PC/Android sorts of stuff.

I'd love to see the Z car get pushed up the scale a bit. The GT-R was a nice fly in Porsche's ointment. 2 flies would be better, IMO. Say shoot for $65k, make gratuitous use of composites, add some old GT-R tech, and maybe a hybrid drive system. But most importantly, it must do what a sports car is meant to: put a…

I didn't mean to forget the trucks, but I forgot that they made any. And this is coming from a current Titan owner. ;-) As for the NV, it was/is just a larger copy of the Sprinter. Now that Ford is going to sell the full-size Transit here, I think the result is going to be as bloody as Titan vs F-150.

For me, it's the change in styling. I just don't see the point in making an SUV that looks like a 10 year old Saab design - especially with how unique the Pathfinder used to be. Don't mind me, I'm just old and grumpy.

I'm seeing things much the same way as you. My neighbor (baby boomer) sold his 69 Camaro to some guy in Dubai. He said with his arthritis, it just wasn't enjoyable anymore to tinker with it. He bought a used C6 vette with some of the money and has been thrilled with AC, automatic trans and having only to do oil…

If there are a couple other guys in similar positions starting to sell, then I would get very worried. But I have contemplated for awhile now how long antique cars will retain their extremely high values. For many collectors, it's about owning something that your friends don't have: If their friends don't have old…

Let's hope so. I still get angry and turn green every time I see a new Pathfinder...

And, what's under the sheet sure looks an awful lot like this...

And by "cowbell", I mean "butch"

Plus with the nature of the current full-size pickup truck market, they're probably going to stick with something more "butch" for Titan as implied by their camo'd trucks:

I wouldn't say 'everything'... Nice list: Altima, Maxima, Sentra, 370Z, GT-R. The "send it back to hell from whence it came" list: Juke, Pathfinder, NV, Cube, Murano Cabriolet. So, I've been worried about their new trucks, but this photo gives me more hope.

When I first saw the Titan, I knew that I liked it but didn't know why. Then a buddy pulled into the driveway with his old hardbody. I think the newer grille design pays nice homage to the old trucks without being too derivative.

Sounds like this guy was a cop, so insurance will probably give him a "not a fault", however for any of us civilians, it would undoubtedly be an "at fault" since there is no check box for heroics on the insurance forms. I learned the hard way that you have to just hit (and possibly kill) the person that passes you on…

I must say, I felt really disgusted when everyone started cheering for Barbosa when he got out of the car. That was just dirty racing running Ricky out to the wall like that. The general agreement in racing is that if you're going to get between your competitor and the racing surface, you'd better leave them a car's…

Ha Ha! Yes, a very stupid place for it. To make matters worse, if your door is unlocked when you push it, it will just lock your door. You have to push it again to unlock the door for your passenger standing in the pouring rain thinking you're just being a DB.

I actually disagree on wipers. I think the Asian car way is more intuitive if you think about it as lifting the wipers with your right hand. My BMW tricks me every time, so I've relegated myself to just using the auto wipers now.

It's not so much that it's an aluminum bed that's new, it's just the first aluminum bed to be manufactured on this scale . In a single year, Ford will probably manufacture more aluminum beds than these aftermarket companies have in 5 years. And because of the sheer number of them to be made, Ford can't afford to…

Shhh. Mention of a flat tax in America will get you labeled as a socialist. ;-) But yes, the middle class takes it in the glory hole. Few people know it, but we just set a new all-time record in America: the top execs now make over 300 times more than their lowest-paid employees.